First Focus on Children gathered experts and day-to-day implementers of H.R. 1 from key states to discuss the law’s impact on Medicaid, SNAP, and children's social safety net. Watch by clicking below.
Children's Budget 2025 finds that the share of federal spending on children has declined for the fourth straight year, hitting its lowest point since the previous Trump Administration.
Our policy team analyzes the granular policy agenda intended to serve as the “playbook” for a Republican presidential administration. This extremist agenda proposes measures that would leave America’s children poorer, sicker, and less likely to become productive citizens. Our series explores some of the most harmful proposals.
Babies in the Budget 2025 tracks the federal government's chronic underfunding of the nation's babies. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, just 1.59% of all federal spending went toward supporting children under 3. This investment will shrink further as historic cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) enacted by the recent reconciliation bill take effect.
Bruce Lesley is incensed at one dimension of the debate about birthright citizenship that he says is being completely…
Republicans in the House and Senate are seriously considering a second budget reconciliation bill. Though hundreds of billions more…
In this episode, Messellech “Selley” Abebe chats with Dr. Emil L. Cunningham and Eunice Na about the Pratt Free…
Being a child has never been easy in this country. But the weeks ahead may prove especially rough for…
Denying education hurts children, the country First Focus on Children told lawmakers today that Plyler v. Doe, the 1982…
First Focus on Children President Bruce Lesley told the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government in testimony…
For more than 15 years, First Focus on Children has produced our annual Children’s Budget, an analysis of the funding — and therefore the value — that we as a nation place on our children. The Children’s Budget offers U.S. leaders and lawmakers a comprehensive picture of where and how we spend our money on children, and what changes we must make to better prioritize them in federal budget and policy decisions.
